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The State of Scripting Languages

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the coming-along-nicely dept.

Esther Schindler writes to tell us that Lynn Greiner has another look at the state of the scripting universe as a follow on to the same topic three years ago. Greiner talks to major players from each of the main scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript) to find out the current status and where they are headed in the future. "The biggest change since 2005 has been the growth of richer Web applications that perform more of their computations in the browser using JavaScript. The demand for these applications has forced developers to learn and use JavaScript much more than before. There's also been a lot of interest in Ruby, another dynamic language, spurred by the release and growth of Ruby on Rails. As a result of these changes, many developers are becoming more comfortable with dynamic languages."

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  1. Re:What about a Comparison Matrix by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's easy, they all suck. Untyped languages are evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil. They're designed by lazy-ass programmers for other lazy ass programmers. If you want to change variable type, then you should be forced to explicitly cast, not have the dumb-ass interpreter do it for you.

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  2. Re:future of perl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No one uses PERL anymore, just the old crusty admins that couldn't develop real applications to save their careers. When the mind-share moved to Python and Ruby, there's not a lot of real enthusiasm left for PERL and fixing it. Good riddance really. Fsck off with COBOL and BASIC. Your time has passed, thanks for all the fish etc.

  3. Re:Syntax argument. by Thiez · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    > If you can write the same program in language X in 1000 LOC and language Y takes 2000, then you will be finished with language X program much sooner and have fewer bugs.

    Clearly you have never seen perl.

  4. Perl, Perl, Perl, Perl, Perl... â" dying! by hotfireball · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    People, wake up. WTF that dude in article is talking about? Perl? For infrastructure? Ideal database manipulation?.. Huh?! How come?.. Anyone Perl pro: show me how you do array of dictionaries of arrays of dictionaries and how you do compare these structures and manipulate. Then I will show you how to do it in Python and/or Ruby. And everybody will decide what is ACTUALLY ideal for database manipulation, especially you have 5 minutes to do the job.

    Perl is constantly dying step by step, leaving its place to more mature and more EASY languages. Perl has no much future: Perl 6 never released, only blablabla and talks. About Perl 6 just talking about literally for years. In compare, Python 3K is already final beta and soon will be release. Here is a chart, showing that Python is more used world-wide than Perl, afterall...

    Ruby also has its remarkable spin...

    http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

    Am I missing something?